Alan Alda

Wendy Wasserstein's final play, "Third," will open the 30th anniversary season of Hartford's TheaterWorks. Three of the five subscription shows are by female playwrights and two of the five will be staged by female directors. "Third" centers on a college professor who accuses a student of plagiarism and in so doing "is forced to question her aggressively feminist ideology and family relations." The five-actor show, staged by artistic producing director Rob Ruggiero, will run Oct. 2 to Nov. 8. "Christmas on the Rocks," the off-subscription holiday show will return for a third year running Nov. 27 to Dec. 23. The show is comprised of...

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